The Blue Fairy Book, The Goose-girl, sentence 35

But the truth was she was afraid lest the horse should speak and tell how she had treated the Princess.

Who acts: truth, horse · What happens: be, speak, tell, treat · To what, where: horse · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Goose-girl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (truth, horse), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	But	but	CCONJ	_	7 afraid	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 truth	det
3	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 afraid	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 afraid	cop
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 afraid	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 afraid	cop
7	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	lest	lest	SCONJ	_	12 speak	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 horse	det
10	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 speak	nsubj
11	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 speak	aux
12	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 afraid	ccomp
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 tell	cc
14	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 speak	conj
15	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	18 treated	advmod
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 treated	nsubj:pass
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 treated	aux
18	treated	treat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 tell	ccomp
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Princess	det
20	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 treated	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 afraid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the truth		afraid property	tree rules
2	speak speech: other	should	the horse			vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	tell speech: assert	infinitive	the horse not said here			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	treat	past · perfect · passive		horse		tree rules

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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